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Reasonable people can reasonably disagree on policy. -- Mark McKinnon
Reasonable men are the best dictionaries of conversation. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Reasonable argument is impossible when authority becomes the arbiter. -- Orson Scott Card
Reasonable regulations regarding the ownership of weapons are appropriate -- John Ashcroft
The Common Law of England has been laboriously built about a mythical figure-the figure of 'The Reasonable Man'. -- A. P. Herbert
Reasonable men are not reasonable when you're in the bubbles which have characterized capitalism since the beginning of time. -- Paul Samuelson
Reasonable orders are easy enough to obey; it is capricious, bureaucratic or plain idiotic demands that form the habit of discipline. -- Barbara Tuchman
Reasonable orders are easy enough to obey; it is capricious, bureaucratic or plain idiotic demands that form the habit of discipline." -- Barbara Tuchman
Reasonable and vicious are quite consistent with each other, in fact, only through their union are great and far-reaching crimes possible -- Arthur Schopenhauer
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Reasonable men adapt to the world around them; unreasonable men make the world adapt to them. The world is changed by unreasonable men. -- Edwin Louis Cole
A certain amount of taxes is of course indispensable to carry on essential government functions. Reasonable taxes for this purpose need not hurt production much. -- Henry Hazlitt
Reasonable men adapt themselves to their environment; unreasonable men try to adapt their environment to themselves. Thus all progress is the result of the efforts of unreasonable men. -- George Bernard Shaw
I tried being reasonable, I didn't like it. -- Clint Eastwood
Every reasonable human being should be a moderate Socialist. -- Thomas Mann
No computer is ever going to ask a new, reasonable question. It takes trained people to do that. -- Grace Hopper
Fight as hard as you can, and then understand there's going to have to be some amount of reasonable compromise. -- Andrew Cuomo
Who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image, but thee who destroys a good book, kills reason its self. -- John Milton
Urgent optimism is the desire to act immediately to tackle an obstacle, combined with the belief that we have a reasonable hope of success. -- Jane McGonigal
Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy. -- Norman Vincent Peale
I'm convinced that no one can amount to a damn in the arts if he becomes sweetly reasonable, seeing all sides of a picture, forgiving all sins. -- Kurt Vonnegut
People think that if you look fairly reasonable, you can't possibly act, and as I only care about acting, I think beauty can be a great handicap. -- Vivien Leigh
We are more likely to cheat if we see others doing so. We tend to conform to accepted norms of reasonable behaviour, rather than adhere to strict rules. -- Evan Davis
If you step back and take a holistic look, I think any reasonable person would say Android is innovating at a pretty fast pace and getting it to users. -- Sundar Pichai
The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature. -- Marcus Aurelius
Employee loyalty begins with employer loyalty. Your employees should know that if they do the job they were hired to do with a reasonable amount of competence and efficiency, you will support them. -- Harvey Mackay
We live unto Him, so committing our service to the Lord is the first and foremost priority of our lives. We can start with our reasonable service: prayer, studying, fasting, tithing, fellowshipping, and witnessing. -- Monica Johnson
We had an apartment on west side of Central Park. The rent was very reasonable. We found out later that it belonged to a gangster called Legs Diamond and it was a front to his headquarters. It was fine. -- James Stewart
You can't climb up to the second floor without a ladder. When you set your aim too high and don't fulfill it, then your enthusiasm turns to bitterness. Try for a goal that's reasonable, and then gradually raise it. -- Emil Zatopek
Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes himself get good things by jealousy, while the other does not allow his neighbour to have them through envy. -- Aristotle
All the evidence that we have indicates that it is reasonable to assume in practically every human being, and certainly in almost every newborn baby, that there is an active will toward health, an impulse towards growth, or towards the actualization. -- Abraham Maslow
Our constitutionally-based criminal justice system places a high value on protecting the innocent. Among its central tenets is the idea that it is better to let a guilty person go free than to convict someone without evidence beyond a reasonable doubt. -- Robert Shapiro
I was the first Navy, Marine or Air Force person who had been an astronaut to return back to the Air Force. I had certain expectations about what would be a reasonable and desirable position to be assigned to after my years of service. -- Buzz Aldrin
It is fatal for any body of workers to have forever hanging from the fringes of its skirts other bodies on a level just below its own; for that means continual pressure downward, additional difficulty to be overcome in the struggle to maintain reasonable rates of wages. -- Florence Kelley
All, too, will bear in mind this sacred principle, that though the will of the majority is in all cases to prevail, that will to be rightful must be reasonable; that the minority possess their equal rights, which equal law must protect, and to violate would be oppression. -- Thomas Jefferson
There are a handful of barbecue seafood shacks on the beach at Hat Nai Yang, which is a fabulous place to have dinner. It's very much run for locals and they serve the catch of the day, which might be lobster, white snapper or squid. It's ridiculously reasonable, too. -- Tony Parsons
A time will come when a politician who has willfully made war and promoted international dissension will be as sure of the dock and much surer of the noose than a private homicide. It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men's lives should not stake their own. -- H. G. Wells
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Once you do embark upon the separation or divorce process, it is very important to remember three key things: Be kind, be reasonable, be brief. Remember that this person will no longer be your spouse, but he or she will continue to be your co-parent, family member, and perhaps business partner in certain assets or entities. -- Laura Wasser
... insanity is never reasonable. -- E.A. Bucchianeri
Who said love was reasonable? -- Johanna Lindsey
Reason is not always reasonable -- Bangambiki Habyarimana
We have to be reasonable people. -- Shimon Peres
Oblivion seemed the only reasonable option. -- Ian Mcewan
Make measurable progress in reasonable time. -- Jim Rohn
I make no apologies for being reasonable. -- Barack Obama
History is rarely made by reasonable men. -- Terry Goodkind
Heaven is where the reasonable people are! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
Women would rather be right than reasonable. -- Ogden Nash
A reasonable probability is the only certainty. -- E. W. Howe
The outrageous is the reasonable, if introduced politely. -- Charles Fort
Glenn McGrath had a reasonable career in Australia. -- Andrew Strauss
When all else failed, she tried being reasonable. -- Terry Pratchett
The wrong way always seems the more reasonable. -- George A. Moore
Nothing is ever accomplished by a reasonable man. -- George Bernard Shaw
Nature is neither reasonable nor just. Nature is exact. -- Beah Richards
Poetry is a perfectly reasonable means of overcoming chaos. -- I. A. Richards
The only remedy against hunger is reasonable birth control. -- Friedrich Durrenmatt
I don t mind a reasonable amount of trouble. -- Dashiell Hammett
Being articulate, my parents could make anything sound reasonable. -- Noah Baumbach
I didn't like having reasonable arguments thrown at me. -- Richelle Mead
Network operators need reasonable leeway to manage their networks. -- Edward Felten
It is impossible on reasonable grounds to disbelieve miracles. -- Blaise Pascal
An uprising of the reasonable is our only chance. -- Keith Olbermann
If you would be unloved and forgotten, be reasonable. -- Kurt Vonnegut
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Forgiveness is a mystical act, not a reasonable one. -- Caroline Myss
Man is a reasoning rather than a reasonable animal. -- Alexander Hamilton
My parents just always taught me to be reasonable. -- Caroline Wozniacki
...a miracles is a reasonable thing to ask for. -- Marianne Williamson
I found draft resistors very conscientious, reasonable, and not fanatics. -- Daniel Ellsberg
I think any reasonable person knows which reporters to eliminate. -- Megyn Kelly
Law was once introduced without reason, and has become reasonable. -- Blaise Pascal
It is never too late to become reasonable and wise. -- Immanuel Kant
Try for a goal that's reasonable, then gradually raise it. -- Emil Zatopek
Find me a reasonable lover against his weight in gold. -- Plautus
If you want a wise answer, ask a reasonable question. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
People! Take to the streets and scream 'BE REASONABLE!' -- Jon Stewart
You won't find reasonable men on the tops of tall mountains. -- Hunter S. Thompson
Christianity is reasonable in virtue of the impossibility of the contrary. -- Greg L. Bahnsen
I am a reasonable and sane functionalist tempered by irrational frivolity. -- Alexander Girard
Within reasonable limits, a professional player should keep busy at music. -- Teddy Wilson
It is sheer laziness not compressing thought into a reasonable space. -- Winston Churchill
A reasonable man needs only to practice moderation to find happiness. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
What is reasonable is real; that which is real is reasonable. -- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Most people are reasonable. That's why they only do reasonably well. -- Paul Arden
What's the word for a perfectly reasonable fear of annoying idiots? -- Cassandra Clare
Whatever is reasonable is true, and whatever is true is reasonable -- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
All I want is compliance with my wishes, after reasonable discussion. -- Winston Churchill
There are times when to be reasonable is to be cowardly. -- Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
It is reasonable that everyone who asks justice should do justice -- Thomas Jefferson
Sleep tries to seduce me by promising a more reasonable tomorrow. -- Elizabeth Smart
What is reasoned has nothing to do with what is reasonable. -- Jose Bergamin
The function of vice is to keep virtue within reasonable bounds. -- Samuel Butler
Reason has always existed, but not always in a reasonable form. -- Karl Marx
The dangerous thing about hate is that it seems so reasonable. -- Enid Bagnold
You are ambitious, which, within reasonable bounds, does good rather than harm. -- Abraham Lincoln
That was, in fact, my life. A whole series of reasonable lies. -- Stacey Kade
Well, many insane people and seriously mentally ill people seem very reasonable. -- Alan Dershowitz
A bully is not reasonable - he is persuaded only by threats. -- Marie de France
I'm a reasonable guy, but I've just experienced some very unreasonable things... -- Kurt Russell
Here seems now no reasonable justification for continuing any civil plutonium program. -- Jinzaburo Takagi
when you have a reasonable reason to dare, dare swiftly and unrelentingly -- Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
America's got quite reasonable tax rates from an employee point of view. -- Jim Ratcliffe
Nobody's reasonable when they're in love. That's the whole point of it. -- Rene Balcer
to be reasonable one should never complain but when one hopes redress. -- Mary Wortley Montagu
Nature takes no account of even the most reasonable of human excuses. -- Joseph Wood Krutch
When you meet me, I can be charming and intelligent and reasonable. -- Ted Kotcheff
If you think about the unthinkable long enough it becomes quite reasonable. -- Josephine Tey
To be gentle, tolerant, wise and reasonable requires a goodly portion of toughness. -- Peter Ustinov
You couldn't even prove the White House staff sane beyond a reasonable doubt. -- Edwin Meese
Take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature. -- Marcus Aurelius
Scientific inquiry shouldn't stop just because a reasonable explanation has apparently been found. -- Neil deGrasse Tyson
We must labor unceasingly to render our piety reasonable, and our reason pious. -- Sophie Swetchine
Monogamy is god's way of making death seem like a more reasonable option. -- Dov Davidoff
It is not possible to have reasonable grounds for not believing in miracles. -- Blaise Pascal
If you give me enough time, enough leash, I can become pretty reasonable. -- Michael Shannon
Man, being reasonable, must get drunk; the best of life is but intoxication. -- Lord Byron
oh my god, she said are you going to be reasonable about this? -- Meg Cabot
To my crew: Please be reasonable and do it my way. The Captain -- Rusty Mills

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